[A method of expert evaluation as a means of improving program-target planning]

The study was designed to analyze the characteristics of the organization and carrying out of cooperative expert examination used as a technique for forecasting health care development within the system of programme-target planning. Some approaches to drawing up expert's questionnaires and the means of data processing were proposed, the factors governing the development of expert appraisals were also analyzed. Expediency of the use of expert questionnaires for scientific and organizational aims along with information support of target complex programmes was substantiated.